Together with my main collaborators Dr. Yury Shtyrov, Dr. Olaf Hauk and Dr. Bettina Mohr, and in collaboration with several researchers at CBU and outside, I am, at present, engaged in numerous projects, some of which are highlighted below:
- Brain activity reflecting word category specific processes: EEG, MEG, and fMRI studies (CBU Speech-Language Project SL4.1),
- The influence of transcranial magnetic stimulation and focal lesions on word category specific processes (SL4.2),
- Language processing outside the focus of attention: The Mismatch Negativity as an index of lexical, semantic and syntactic processes (SL4.3),
- Human cognitive processes reflected by high-frequency oscillations in the gamma band,
- Brain mechanisms of serial order and syntax (SL4.3),
- The role of the right hemisphere and that of interhemispheric interaction in lexical and semantic processing (SL4.4),
- Aphasia therapy and cortical reorganisation of language (SL4.5),
- Brain models of cell assemblies and language.
Most of this research is carried out in the MRC CBU EEG Laboratory, and in the BioMag Laboratory at Helsinki University Central Hospital. Research is, in part, supported by the European Union through the FET Grant Mirrorbot.